Commentary - America's Future

By Kelvey Vander Hart • Oct 03,2022 Culture, Leadership

The Most Sustainable Items Are Ones You Already Own

Want to make your everyday life a little more sustainable? Me too! And, we are not alone—a Google search for ‘sustainable swaps’ pulled up nearly 5 million results. Living sustainably...

By Emily Schroen • Sep 30,2022 Culture, Liberty

How a Child Sees War

Peter Burkard only knew about war for the first five years of his life. He remembers hiding in a German bomb shelter when the Nazis surrendered in 1945, and fearing...

By Rodney Rios • Sep 29,2022 Culture

BoJack Horseman and the Modern West

Depression, suicide, anxiety, drug overdoses, and a “loneliness epidemic” all indicate that the United States, and much of the Western world, is consumed by a mental health crisis. There seems...

By Jordan Smith • Sep 28,2022 Culture, Liberty, Policy

A Great Egocentric Disservice to the American Youth

English, mathematics, science, and social science: this is the stripped-down version of four years of American high school. Speaking from experience, my parents’ experience, and their parents’ experience, precedent has...

By Julia Canzano • Sep 27,2022

Addressing the Crisis At the Border

The quiet, island town of Martha’s Vineyard made national headlines for the recent arrival of Venezuelan immigrants. They traveled from San Antonio, TX to Florida, where Governor Ron DeSantis flew...

By Brittany Hunter • Sep 23,2022 Culture, Leadership, Policy

How The Government’s Drug War Hurt Veterans with PTSD

The drug war has been a disaster for a litany of reasons; it takes away self-ownership from individuals, creates a massive prison population that punishes nonviolent drug offenders, and has...